Hi guys im new in Digital Ocean and im trying to deploy a personal project. My issue happens when i try to migrate into a production database in a droplet rails app This is my database.YML default: &default adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode pool: <%= ENV.fetch(“RAILS_MAX_THREADS”) { 5 } %> production: <<: *default secret_key_base: <%= ENV[“SECRET_KEY”] %> username: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_USER”] %> password: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_PASSWORD”] %> database: <%= ENV[“DATABASE”] %> host: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_HOST”] %> these are the steps im following Cd Into rails app on VM rails s -d -b 0.0.0.0 RAILS_ENV=production At this point the production server is “online” then i want to get migrations by running this: rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production and this is the issue: Caused by:PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: database “root” does not exist Rails -v 6.0.3.4 Ruby -v 2.7.1

Hi there, The error that you are getting indicates that you’ve defined root as the database that you want to use, but that database does not seem to exist. What I could suggest is: Connect to your Managed database with any SQL client like Table Plus or DBever. Create a new database for your project. Then use that new database in your env variables. For more information on how to do that you can follow the steps here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/manage-users-and-databases/ Best, Bobby

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Can't connect droplet with cluster database | Rails|

Posted on June 30, 2022
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database Databases DigitalOcean Droplets PostgreSQL Ruby Ruby on Rails DigitalOcean
Asked by SwimmingLightCyanRay

Hi guys im new in Digital Ocean and im trying to deploy a personal project. My issue happens when i try to migrate into a production database in a droplet rails app

This is my database.YML

default: &default
adapter: postgresql
encoding: unicode
pool: <%= ENV.fetch(“RAILS_MAX_THREADS”) { 5 } %>
production:
<<: *default
secret_key_base: <%= ENV[“SECRET_KEY”] %>
username: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_USER”] %>
password: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_PASSWORD”] %>
database: <%= ENV[“DATABASE”] %>
host: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_HOST”] %>

these are the steps im following

Cd Into rails app on VM

rails s -d -b 0.0.0.0 RAILS_ENV=production

At this point the production server is “online”

then i want to get migrations by running this:

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

and this is the issue:

Caused by:PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: database “root” does not exist

Rails -v 6.0.3.4

Ruby -v 2.7.1

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Bobby Iliev

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• July 1, 2022

Accepted Answer

Hi there,

The error that you are getting indicates that you’ve defined root as the database that you want to use, but that database does not seem to exist.

What I could suggest is:

Connect to your Managed database with any SQL client like Table Plus or DBever.
Create a new database for your project.
Then use that new database in your env variables.

For more information on how to do that you can follow the steps here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/manage-users-and-databases/

Best,

Bobby

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